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y separately published work icon The Aboriginal Flinder's Island Chronicle newspaper  
Alternative title: The Aboriginal or Flinders Island Chronicle : under the Sanction of the Commandant; Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle
Issue Details: First known date: 1836... 1836 The Aboriginal Flinder's Island Chronicle
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The Flinders Island Chronicle was the first newspapers produced by Indigenous Australians. Founded in September 1836 and running until December 1837, only twenty-nine editions have been noted. It was jointly written and edited by Thomas Brune and Walter George Arthur. The newspaper was issued on a half a sheet of foolscap every Saturday at 2d. each. (Source: Flinders Island Establishment for the Aborigines, The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, 1837:958; Wikipedia website)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      Flinders Island, Bass Strait Islands, Tasmania,: 1836 .
      Note/s:
      • Distributed weekly
      • Photocopy of manuscript Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Vol. 52, part 4 Held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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y separately published work icon For the Record : 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism Michael Rose (editor), St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1996 Z1378216 1996 selected work non-fiction poetry (taught in 1 units)

'For the Record offers the reader an unusual glimpse, through Aboriginal eyes, of key issues and events in Aboriginal and Australian history by bringing together examples of Aboriginal journalism from a wide range of Aboriginal and mainstream publications.' (Source: Back cover)
Flinders Island Establishment for the Aborigines : (From the Hobart Town Courier) 1837 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 19 August 1837; (p. 058) 'Among the other careful and shrewd provisions of the new South Australia provincials we have not observed, what we should have considered the primary and most essential of all...'
Flinders Island Establishment for the Aborigines : (From the Hobart Town Courier) 1837 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 19 August 1837; (p. 058) 'Among the other careful and shrewd provisions of the new South Australia provincials we have not observed, what we should have considered the primary and most essential of all...'
y separately published work icon For the Record : 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism Michael Rose (editor), St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1996 Z1378216 1996 selected work non-fiction poetry (taught in 1 units)

'For the Record offers the reader an unusual glimpse, through Aboriginal eyes, of key issues and events in Aboriginal and Australian history by bringing together examples of Aboriginal journalism from a wide range of Aboriginal and mainstream publications.' (Source: Back cover)
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